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ALBIGENSES

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Al⋅bi⋅gen⋅ses

  [al-bi-jen-seez]
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–plural noun
members of a Catharistic sect in the south of France that arose in the 11th century and was exterminated in the 13th century by a crusade (Albigensian Crusade) and the Inquisition.
Origin:
< ML Albīgēnsēs, pl. of Albīgēnsis, equiv. to Albīg(a) Albi + -ēnsis -ensis

Related forms:
Al⋅bi⋅gen⋅si⋅an  [al-bi-jen-see-uhn, -shuhn] , adjective, noun
Al⋅bi⋅gen⋅si⋅an⋅ism, noun
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Al·bi·gen·ses   (āl'bə-jěn'sēz')   
pl.n.  The members of a Catharist religious sect of southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries, exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition.

[Medieval Latin Albigēnsēs, pl. of Albigēnsis, inhabitant of Albiga, Albi, a town of southern France where the sect was dominant.]
Al'bi·gen'sian (-shən, -sē-ən) adj. & n., Al'bi·gen'sian·ism n.
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Albigenses

the heretics-especially the Catharist heretics-of 12th-13th-century southern France. (See Cathari.) The name, apparently given to them at the end of the 12th century, is hardly exact, for the movement centred at Toulouse and in nearby districts rather than at Albi (ancient Albiga). The heresy, which had penetrated into these regions probably by trade routes, came originally from eastern Europe.

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